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  • Some investors and brokers are warming up to a controversial part of the upcoming Markets in Financial Instruments Directive that will force bank clients to buy fixed income research that traditionally they have gotten for free.
  • Caught between two regulatory initiatives, many small banks are unsure about whether to embark on the long and costly journey of developing their own regulatory capital models.
  • From bonus caps to pre-trade transparency, the Bank of England has suggested big changes to proposed European Union financial regulation in response to a call for evidence from the European Commission.
  • Capital market participants tend to keep their heads below the political parapet. Brexit is one issue they must not ignore. It would sabotage the City’s leadership in financial services and be an assault on the fabric of global governance.
  • A UBS debt buyback weighed on results for the fourth quarter last year, with the Swiss bank reporting profit of just Sfr234m. UBS preferred to highlight the “adjusted” figure of Sfr754m profit, which strips out the tender cost of Sfr257m, and restructuring charges, including Sfr143m in the investment bank.
  • Stifel Financial, known largely for its brokerage businesses, has become the latest US financial services firm to make a bid to win capital markets business in Europe.